After Hours (1985)
Average Rating: 7.8/10
Reviews Counted: 38
Fresh: 34 | Rotten: 4
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Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1
No consensus yet.
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Average Rating: 3.8/5
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Movie Info
A Manhattan Yuppie's night out becomes a comic nightmare, courtesy of director Martin Scorsese. Griffin Dunne and Rosanna Arquette star in a "wild, funny and wonderful original" (Judith Crist) Year: 1985 Director: Martin Scorsese Starring: Griffin Dunne, Rosanna Arquette, Verna Bloom
Sep 13, 1985 Limited
Aug 17, 2004
Warner Bros. Pictures
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Cast
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Griffin Dunne
Paul Hackett -
Rosanna Arquette
Marcy -
Verna Bloom
June -
Tommy Chong
Pepe -
Linda Fiorentino
Kiki -
Teri Garr
Julie -
John Heard
Tom the bartender -
Cheech Marin
Neil -
Catherine O'Hara
Gail -
Will Patton
Horst -
Robert Plunket
Mark Street Pickup -
Bronson Pinchot
Lloyd -
Frank Aquilino
Angry Mob Member -
Victor Argo
Diner Cashier -
Larry Block
Taxi Driver -
Clarence Felder
Bouncer -
Robin Johnson
Punk Girl -
Dick Miller
Waiter -
Murray Moston
Token Booth Clerk -
Rockets Redglare
Angry Mob Member -
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Rocco Sisto
Coffee Shop Cashier -
Margo Winkler
Woman with Gun -
Vic Magnotta
Dead Man -
Martin Scorsese
Club Berlin Searchlight... -
Henry Baker
Jett -
Victor Bumbalo
2nd Neighbor -
Rand Carr
2nd Biker -
Maree Catalano
Angry Mob Member -
John Codiglia
Transit Cop -
Bill Elverman
Neighbor -
Clarke Evans
1st Neighbor -
Joel Jason
1st Biker -
Stephen J. Lim
Club Berlin Bartender -
Paula Raflo
Angry Mob Member -
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All Critics (38) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (34) | Rotten (4) | DVD (12)
The result is a delirious and challenging comedy, a postmodern Ulysses in Nighttown.
Top CriticAnxiety-ridden picture would have been pretty funny if it didn't play like a confirmation of everyone's worst fears about contemporary urban life.
Scorsese's orchestration of thematic development, narrative structure, and visual style is stunning in its detail and fullness; this 1985 feature reestablished him as one of the very few contemporary masters of filmmaking.
Inventive film-making of the first order.
After Hours is not, ultimately, a satisfying film, but it's often vigorously unsettling. In this season of homogenized pap, that should be read as praise.
This is the work of a master filmmaker who controls his effects so skillfully that I was drained by this film.
[Scorsese's] tendency toward hollow showboating has rarely been more in evidence ... Ends as a tolerable but annoyingly atonal exercise made by artists with little if anything on their minds.
Martin Scorsese's take on NYC puts a hip spin on Joe Minion's cleverly constructed nightmare.
During the 80s there was a slew of yuppie revenge flicks where film-makers visited horrors on the heads of young urban professionals and this is probably the best of that mini-genre.
A SoHo version of Ulysses? A male rendition of Alice in Wonderland? In Scorsese's noir comedy, a bored, repressed Everyman becomes an alien in his own town, subjected to one surreal nightmare after another, mostly by women.
I love it for its unrelenting inventiveness, its constant motion and its curmudgeonly glass-half-empty outlook.
Scorsese's directing is at its best.
A Kafkaesque drama about paranoia and urban living.
Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film's dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria.
Darkly comedic and delightfully manic, After Hours is a fresh, funny look at one man's downward mental and emotional slide into an evening of unmitigated SoHo hell.
Quintessentially New York
Scorsese's masterpiece of uncomfortable cinema
Scorsese's mortgage payment was due.
a comedy that's both uproariously funny (often in a most uncomfortable way) and deeply disturbing at the same time.
A wickedly funny black comedy.
far deeper than a mere throwaway "one crazy night" movie
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Great weird film! One of Martin Scorsese's most underrated films. It was made in 1985, and I can already see the techniques Scorsese used in Goodfellas and the quick editing. It is directed and edited really well. So if you were a fan of Scorsese's frantic camera work in Goodfellas and Casino, this film is for you. It really does put you on edge as a viewer, you really want Dunne's character to get back home but everything possible that could happen to him happens. This is not just a evocation of soHo in the early 80's, it is a deeply black comedy. All the rules go out the window for Dunne's character, because after all it is after hours. Overall, however, "After Hours" is an enjoyable film. It is an especially good choice to gain a sense of perspective. Not many ongoing experiences can be worse than the rough night that Paul has in Soho. Watch at own risk!
Conjure up an urban world where apparently friendly young ladies all turn out to be somewhere between odd and crazy. Then imagine you're up here to see one such girl and your last bill has flown out of the cab window on the way. Then pretend your date has committed suicide, you've somehow got branded as a serial robber, and another girl is after you with her ice cream van. You could well be Paul Hackett stranded in New York's SoHo in the early hours miles away from your uptown word processing job. You've got some change but since the subway fares went up at midnight, not enough to get back. Who do you call? Definitely not the police.